Cocaine here, cocaine there, cocaine everywhere

The recent cocaine busts which originated from Ghana are unlike no other in recent times in terms of frequency and quantity.

Information reaching us and as corroborated by the Interior Minister is that the French are reluctant in divulging intelligence with their Ghanaian counterparts, mistrust being the reason.

Developments in recent times have informed the French position, which cannot be faulted.

The suspicion that the image of one of the suspects arrested in connection with the French bust resembles a presidential close security is rife. Indeed, a name has been mentioned on social media which is shared by one of the President's men.

During the next court hearing, that suspect would be present and those who know him well will easily identify him or not as the case may be.

He is said to hail from Akwatia Line, a suburb of Kumasi, one of his aliases being Karyansu.

The Spokesperson for the President would do Ghanaians a great service if he issues a statement to clear the subject. Until he does so, the speculation is continuing in assortment of conversations in manners uncomplimentary of government.

Not even the MV Benjamin case is receiving the kind of public attention these ones are.

When security personnel are hooked to social media chasing those behind the insults which have become the order of local politics in the country today, the security of our ports cannot be guaranteed.

Be it as it may, we are enmeshed in cocaine politics. Those who suspect government complicity in the unfolding scandal or saga are relishing the unfolding developments.

Even as the opposition hits hard at government over the cocaine busts, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in their bid to return fire are failing, their defence too weak to stand the firepower of their political foes.

Of course it cannot make sense when they claim that it was because the number of agencies undertaking inspections was curtailed under the Akufo-Addo regime that gave rise to the busts outside Ghana today.

How did the drugs come into the country when relevant agencies are expected to perform their functions of stopping the entry of illicit substances into the country? Ghana does not produce cocaine because, after all, we do not grow poppies here as it is done in Afghanistan and elsewhere.

Under Akufo-Addo, how many such busts originating from Ghana were made?

In a digitised age, high-tech scanners exist to ensure that illicit drugs do not pass through our ports. These gadgets are however operated by humans who must listen to orders from above.

There are a lot to learn about the new drug status of Ghana, and these are worrying.

When Rev. Ntim Fordjour raised the red flag about the strange landing at the Kotoka International Airport before the name change, he was harassed for seeing and talking.

Now here we are, too dirty to come out in the open as a country.

Even worrying is the possibility that there are stuck in the country larger quantities of the stuff locked up in stash houses awaiting the clearance of the coast before the next attempts. The local market will boom as some quantities could be offloaded for the consumption of the already hooked. This is pure premium quality, it would appear.

What a shame!